Operating Policies & Procedures

Operating Policy and Procedure

OP 74.15: TTU Policy on Prostitution and Sex Trafficking

DATE: September 26, 2018

PURPOSE: Texas Tech University is the recipient of federal funds appropriated under the Leadership
Act and administered by the United States Agency for International Development. This
policy addresses the requirement in 22 U.S.C. 7631 that organizations receiving these
funds have policy explicitly opposing prostitution and sex trafficking.

REVIEW: This Operating Policy/Procedure (OP) will be reviewed in September of even-numbered
years by the Senior Associate Vice President for Research with substantive revisions
forwarded to the Vice President for Research.

POLICY/PROCEDURE

Texas Tech University is opposed to prostitution and related activities, which are
inherently harmful and dehumanizing and contribute to the phenomenon of trafficking
in persons. No university funds, whether received through grants, contracts, gifts,
appropriations, or tuition and fees, may be used to promote or advocate the legalization
or practice of prostitution or sex trafficking.